Apparatus for training horses.



No. 7I0,267. Patented Sept. 3,0, |902.

A. GRAF. APPARATUS FOR TRAINING HORSES.

(Application filed Feb. 18,l 1902.) (No model.) 2 sheets-sheet' l.

Nu.7|o,267. Patented sept. so, |902.

A. GRAF.v

APPARATUS FOR TRAINING HORSES.

(Application led Feb. 1B, 1902.)

(No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet 2.

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ALOIS GRAF, OF STUTTGART, GERMANY.

APPARATUS FOR TRAINING HORSES.

SPECIFICATION' forming part of Letters Patent No. 710,267,

dated September 30, 1902.

Appnoo'oion moa rooruooy 1a, 1902. 'soria No.4 94h79. oro 'modem To @ZZ whom, t may concern:

Be it known that I,- ALOIS GRAF, a citizen of the German Empire, residing at Stuttgart, in the Kingdom of Wrtemberg, Germany, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Apparatus for Training Horses, of which the following is a description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings and to .the figures of reference marked thereon.

The present invention relates to improvements in apparatus for training horses, by means of which the traction exerted upon the reins by the trainer is softened by a particular arrangement of the bridle and training reins.

The object of the present invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, inA which- Figures 1 and 2 are right and left hand side views of the apparatus applied to a horse to be trained, (from the near side, Fig. 1.) Fig. 3 is a front elevation of the saddle portion of the apparatus. Fig. 4 is a plan thereof; Fig. 5, a horizontal section thereof; Fig. 6, a transverse vertical section thereof through one pair of the saddle, partly in section. Fig. S shows the bridle in elevation and vertical section; and Fig. 9 shows the bridle-bit in plan view, together with the devices for connecting it with one of the bridle-reins.

In the example illustrated the horse is intended to run to the left-hand side.

The saddle-like frame 17,fixed on the horses back by a girth 18, is provided with a bridge 19, carrying on its right and left hand side rollers 21 and 22, rotatable around the pins 27 2S, fixed in the transverse rod 31 and in the bridge 19. The transverse rod 31 is fixed upon the central block 20, carrying spring arms or pins 29, which pass through eyes in the upper ends of the pins 27 28 in order to hold themin position. Thevrollers 2l 22 on their bottom sides are provided with small rollers 23 24 of about a quarter of the diameter of the rollers themselves. In order to allow of the arrangement of these smaller rollers, the bridge 19 has two recesses 32 33. Y The bridlereins 16 and 14 are at one end wound'aronnd these smaller rollers and then fixed at their opposite end to the frame 47, as illustrated by Figs. 1 and 2. The training-reins 34.35 are Wound around the rollers-21 22 and held from accidental displacement thereon by a `wireframe 30, Fig. 4. The bridle-reins being fixed upon the frame 17, the other ends after being wound around the smaller rollers 23 and 24 underneath the rollers 21 22 are conducted over horizontal guide-rollers 25 26 and connected to the snafiie 3, or, more precisely, to the snatIie-ring 7 and to the bridle-bit 2, by means of the straps 5 and 8.

Suppose the horse runs 1n acircle to the left hand of the trainer. Theleft or inner rein 14, by a roller 13 and a ring 12, is connected to a strap 5, which at one end is attached to the inner snaffle-ring 7 and is guided over a head-plate 4, held on the front of the bridle by a nose-strap 6 and at the other outer side is iixed to the upper end of the curb or bridle bit 2, Fig. 1. The outer rein 16, by means of a roller 15 and ring 11, is attached to a strap 8, connected at one side by means of the roller 10 to the arm 9, which connects the lower en dsof Vthe side bars of the curb-bit 2,

and at the other side with the outer ring 7 of the snafde 3.

Vith wild horses the strap 5 is guided through the snaltle-ring and is fixed in the eyelets 36, forming the prolongation of the bridle-bit 2, Fig. 8. When noW by exerting a traction on the training-rein 34 the bridlerein 14 is attracted, the movement of the latter, owing to lthe arrangement of the rollers 21, 22, 23, and 24, is not half as heavy as would be the case when the traction is exerted directly upon thevbridle-rein. Each pair of rollers 22 24 constitutes a differential pulley. If, for instance, the roller 22 is four times greater than the small roller 24,the movement of the rein 14 is only one-eighth of that of the training-reins 34. In the same manner the strap 8 will be moved by the bridle-rein 16 when the outer rein 35 is attracted. When noW the horse shall run in the other direction, the right bridle-rein 16 is connected at the right-hand side to the snaftle and at the lefthand side to the upper end of the bridle-bit. In the same manner the rein 14 is' connected to the strap 8, the latter being ixed to the left snaiiie-ring.

It will be seen from the foregoing that the IOC horse is guided on the near side by the snale only and at theof side by the bridle-bit and snaflle.

The movement of the snafle-rein is so slight that the horse follows very willingly.

The apparatus can be used for training saddle and carriage horses. n

Having now particularly described and ascertained my invention, I declare that what I claim isl. In a trainingapparatus for horses, the combination with a saddle-like frame carrying large and small winding-rollers for the bridle and training reins, a bridle-bit and snafle connected to the bridle-reins by means of straps and rollers, substantially as and for the purpose as described.

2. In a training apparatus for horses, the combination with the driving and bridle reins of a frame 17 carrying a bridge 19 and wind.- ing-rollers 21, 22, small rollers 23, 24, arranged in same line as the large rollers, horizontal guide-rollers 25, 26, the whole for guiding the bridle and training reins, substantially and for the purpose as set forth.

3; In a training apparatus for horses the combination'with bridle-reins 14, 16, snalle 3, and bridle-bit 2, the bridle-reins being connected to the snatlie and bridle bit, and a connection 9 connecting the lower ends of the side arms of the bridle-bit, for the purpose substantially as described.

4. The combination with the bridle, its curb and snaffle bits and a saddle-like support, of a strap extending from the upper end of the curb-bit at one side around to the snafle at theopposite side, a second strap extending from the lower end of the curb-bit around to the other side of the snaflie, and bridle-reins secured at one end to said support and in running connection between their ends with the said straps; substantially as described.

5. A training apparatus, comprising a bridle having curb and snafle bits, a saddle-like support provided with a pair of differential' winding-pulleys, a strap extending from the upper end of they curb-bit at the off side, around to the snaftle at the nearside, asecond strap extending from the lower end of the curb-bit around to the od side of the snale, bridle-reins extending from the smaller pulleys forward to a running connection with the said two straps and thence rearwardly to the said support to which they are fixed and driving-reins wound on the largerpulleys.

6. The combination with the bridle and a saddle-like support,- provided with a pair of differential pulleys, of the bridle-reins wound at one end on the smaller pulleys and the driving-reins wound on Vthe larger pulleys; substantially as described.

'7. In a training apparatus, the combination with the bridle and driving reins of the sad dle-like support, comprising a horizontal bar, a pair of vertically-disposed differential pulleys thereon for the driving and bridle reins, supporting-rods for the pulleys having eyes at their upper ends, and spring arms or pins se cured to the middle ofthe bar with their outer ends passingthrough said eyes; substantially as described.

8. In a training apparatus, the combination with the bridle and driving reins of the saddle-like support, comprising the horizontal bar, the vertically-disposed pair of differential pulleys thereon for the bridle and driving reins, and a frame secured to the said bar and curved around the driving-rein pulleys to hold the reins from displacement; substantially as described.

9. In a training apparatus, the combination with the bridle and driving reins of the saddle-like frame having a horizontal bar provided with recesses' at opposite sides of its middle, a pair of dierential winding-pulleys mounted thereon for the driving and bridle reins, and guide rollers in advance of the lower smaller Winding-pulleys; substantially as described. f

In testimony whereof I affix lmy signature in presence ot' two witnesses.

ALDIS GRA F.

Witnesses AUGUST DRAUTZ, WALTER SCHMAETZEL. 

